Revisions
AWS exam guides are periodically reviewed and updated to ensure that our certification exams test skills and AWS services and features that are relevant for the job role(s) that a certification is designed to target. Exam guide updates will be published approximately one month before updates will be reflected on your exam.
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Change History
| Version | Publication date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | This is the first release. |
| 1.1 | December 12, 2025 |
The separate knowledge and skills in Version 1.0 of the exam guide were consolidated into one list of skills under each task. Knowledge items in Version 1.0 that overlapped with existing skills were removed in Version 1.1.
Changes to knowledge and skills
| Version 1.1 | Version 1.0 |
|---|---|
| Skill 1.4.8: Use infrastructure as code (IaC) for repeatable resource deployment (for example AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)). | Knowledge of: Infrastructure as code (IaC) for repeatable deployments (for example, AWS Cloud Development Kit [AWS CDK], AWS CloudFormation) |
| Skill 2.1.3: Apply storage services to appropriate use cases (for example, using indexing algorithms like HNSW with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and using Amazon MemoryDB for fast key/value pair access). | Skills in: Applying storage services to appropriate use cases (for example, Amazon S3) |
| Skill 2.2.2: Build and reference a technical data catalog (for example, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Apache Hive metastore). | Skills in: Building and referencing a data catalog (for example, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Apache Hive metastore) |
| Skill 2.4.4: Establish data lineage by using AWS tools (for example, Amazon SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking and Amazon SageMaker Catalog). | Skills in: Establishing data lineage by using AWS tools (for example, Amazon SageMaker ML Lineage Tracking) |
| Skill 3.1.6: Prepare data for transformation (for example, AWS Glue DataBrew and Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio). | Skills in: Preparing data transformation (for example, AWS Glue DataBrew) |
| Skill 3.2.3: Use SQL in Redshift and Athena to query data or to create views. | Skills in: Using Athena to query data or to create views |
| Skill 4.2.5: Apply authorization methods that address business needs (role-based, tag-based, and attribute-based). | Knowledge of: Authorization methods (role-based, policy-based, tag-based, and attribute based) |
| Skill 4.2.6: Construct custom policies that meet the principle of least privilege. | Knowledge of: Principle of least privilege as it applies to AWS security |
| Skill 4.3.4: Enable encryption in transit or before transit for data. | Skills in: Enabling encryption in transit for data |
| Skill 4.5.4: Viewing configuration changes that have occurred in an account (for example, AWS Config). | Skills in: Managing configuration changes that have occurred in an account (for example, AWS Config) |
| Skill 4.5.5: Maintain data sovereignty. | Knowledge of: Data sovereignty |
New skills added
Skill 1.2.10: Integrate Large Language Models (LLM) for data processing.
Skill 2.1.7: Manage open table formats (for example Apache Iceberg).
Skill 2.1.8: Describe vector index types (for example, HNSW, IVF).
Skill 2.2.6: Create and manage business data catalogs (for example Amazon SageMaker Catalog).
Skill 2.4.6: Describe vectorization concepts (for example, Amazon Bedrock knowledge base).
Skill 4.1.7: Use domain, domain units, and projects for SageMaker Unified Studio.
Skill 4.5.6: Manage data access through Amazon SageMaker Catalog projects.
Skill 4.5.7: Describe governance data framework and data sharing patterns.
Skills removed
There are no knowledge and skills removed on Version 1.1 other than knowledge items that were already covered by existing skills.
Changes to in- and out-of-scope services
Services added to the in-scope list
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Q
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Kendra
AWS Data Exchange
Amazon S3 Tables
Services removed from the in-scope list
AWS Cloud9
AWS CodeCommit
AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT)
Services added to the out-of-scope list
No services were added to the out-of-scope list
Services removed from the out-of-scope list (all due to service changes or deprecations)
Amazon Honeycode
Amazon WorkDocs
Amazon Timestream
Amazon CodeWhisperer
